US crude futures gained 40 cents to $105.37. Brent crude futures rose 29 cents to $115.99 a barrel at 1130 GMT.
The civil unrest has spread across oil rich North Africa and the West Asia to such countries as Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain and has shut in the bulk of Libya's oil output. In Nigeria, some violence has been reported ahead of presidential election in April. Palestinian rockets struck two cities deep in Israel on Wednesday, wounding a resident and prompting a deputy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call for a new offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.In Yemen, a small oil and gas producer, opposition groups called on protesters to march on President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Sanaa palace on Friday to demand he step down.
The civil unrest has spread across oil rich North Africa and the West Asia to such countries as Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain and has shut in the bulk of Libya's oil output. In Nigeria, some violence has been reported ahead of presidential election in April. Palestinian rockets struck two cities deep in Israel on Wednesday, wounding a resident and prompting a deputy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call for a new offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.In Yemen, a small oil and gas producer, opposition groups called on protesters to march on President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Sanaa palace on Friday to demand he step down.
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